One of those donations highlighted Thursday by the Republican Party came from Gustavo Cisneros of Venezuela, who it listed as "tied to Nicholas Maduro."

That's an attempt to link Clinton to President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, whose running of the country has been widely condemned because of his human rights violations and imprisonment of dissidents. Maduro is a highly controversial figure among Venezuelans and Cuban-Americans in South Florida.

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And when Cisneros appeared at the Herald's Americas Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables in 2007, he was effusive in his praise for the former governor and talked about what, almost a decade later, may actually happen. Speaking in Spanish about Bush, the Herald reported that Cisneros declared: "I want to see a third Bush friend in the White House."

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Polls show Clinton is the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic presidential nomination, which is why the Republicans are going after her for foreign donations to the foundation founded by her husband after he left the presidency.

RNC spokeswoman Ali Pardo said by email that that there isn't any equivalency between the Clinton Foundation fundraising and the Bush family activities. The Republicans view it as comparing apples to oranges to conflate the overseas donations while Clinton was secretary of state to Bushes knowing some of the same people.

"While serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton had a family foundation accepting millions of dollars in donations from foreign interests that were lobbying her State Department. Hillary Clinton is in a league of her own when it comes to conflicts of interest and there's no equal comparison to her level of playing by her own set of rules," Pardo said.

In a statement posted Thursday on the RNC website — headlined "The Clinton Foundation's Shady Foreign $$" the party complained about the foundation "accepting tens of millions of dollars from individuals with intimate connections to foreign governments" and encouraged party members to "Demand that the Clintons return donations from foreign governments."

Cisneros was one of four specific donors the Republican statement cited. It's not clear how much any donor gave to the foundation or the total amount of foreign money, because the foundation website lists contributions in broad categories. Cisneros and his Venevisión TV network are listed on the website as contributing from $500,001 to $1 million.

Another Clinton Foundation donor the Republicans complained about was Victor Pinchuk of Ukraine. He's been involved with the Bush family as well.

Pinchuk also attended the 80th birthday party of Jeb Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, and got the elder Bush to deliver his own speech in Yalta, the Times reported. He also arranged a Yalta speech by Karl Rove, the top political strategist for Jeb Bush's brother, former president George W. Bush.

The Republicans complained about two other donors: Wang Wenliang, a member of the Chinese Parliament and Prince Turki al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia — who was the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. during 17 months of George W. Bush's presidency.